Acquisition of the movie title "Overstrained" from the year 1968, 45 years later. In half-sentences and fragments exploded film footage and recordings from the years 1964-74 assembled in a cryptic parallel montage.
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An artificial look at the faces of grass pavers. The walk over the grass pavers -as a score to the music of J.S. Bach- ends with a laconic pan shot on the Laber, a small river near by Dietfurt / Germany.
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Finally and infinitely brought to the point. (L.M.) The spectator hears that the train is coasting, but he sees that the train goes nowhere, a common view is mounted to a magical journey. (UWE NETTELBECK, DIE ZEIT, 5.1.68) The viewer pases, while the film rolls, different phases of experience: 1. He is confused and looks for an order 2. He discovered the two recurring cutting points at which use the same landscape pieces appear 3. He is pleased with his discovery and observes the neighbor 4. He...
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In the lower half of the screen the legs of a dancing girl can be seen, in the upper half of the screen we have perforated movie - in a butterfly way. "Danceloop" shows in the lower half of the screen the legs of a dancing girl, the rest of the screen is pierced in a fussy work with a needle. (H.P. KOCHENRATH, FILM, JAN. 69)
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Space / Film installation: At a distance of about 10 m two large screens are mounted, for synchronous Vis a Vis movies like Counterpart and Left / Right The most beautiful moment of the two-screen cinema, is when it is not in operation. And now the always restless Lutz Mommartz has a new project: the windmill! Eight at specific angles to one another established projection screens are immersed by the use of eight film or slide projectors in a permanent image vortex, and above all a floating fan...
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This is the first failed attempt of the author.
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MR. MOMMARTZ, PLEAS DESCRIBE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO CINEMA? I rarely go to the cinema. I do not like Western, nor problem movies or comedies. Sometimes, out of curiosity I enter a movie theater, but then very carefully. Sometimes I'm even excited, but then I do not have an explanation. WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE "JUNGE DEUTSCHE FILM"? They are old-young, they did not understand anything. HOW DID YOU STARTED? I never wanted to become a filmmaker. In 1963 I was six weeks Uganda. As an...
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LUTZ MOMMARTZ Margret, since more than 45 years my partner, hated to be photographed. For four weeks she is with cancer in hospice. Late in the evening a phone call reached me, she had made herself naked, I should come, take a picture of her, "a photo for the Arts". Irritated I drove to the hospice, but without a camera. When I saw her before me, I understood how serious she was. The next day, her wish was fulfilled as if it would have been mine, with this both our lives...
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Image rotation produced by a black diaphragm circling in the compendium.
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1. As an unsuspecting wanderer between Maikammer and Hambach / Germany makes history. 2. Reassurance 3. Aborigines 4. Moons Lutz Mommartz' films focus attention on the mostly ignored confidante: The doves in the puddle, an ant swarm as a parable of human fuss, the course of the moon, flitting like a dirty spotlight through the night. Imperceptibly the only seemingly aimless camera succeeds to respond formally adequately to the brutal everyday life. In "The italien Hunt" the camera...
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With the Rockband "The Iceni" and NN Five men in white clothing floating against a black background. And in the split screen above the torso of a man. Below the lower body of the dancing girl from the "dance loop". More complicated is "Up / Down", that recorded alternately in slow motion and normal recording five male dancers and a female dancer. The image is divided horizontal in the middle so that the body of a man can be combined with the one of the girl. Then...
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The shadow of a chimney on a backyard wall.
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"Black / White" begins with a series of 200 frames flickering in a 25tel seconds rhythm, alternately black and white, before it slows down continuously to a 1.25tel rhythm. After 10 seconds it reaches 125 images = 5 seconds and ends white as a metaphor for theoretically infinite.
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The author uses the camera as the eye, moves so one-handed through home and welcomes after peeing with his free hand, people at a party. I've seen "The Stairs", which was not shown in Knokke at the Cream Cheese, a Beat-Restaurant in the historic center of Düsseldorf, where films from Lutz Mommartz were projected on the wall. The film shows a man at home with the camera: A man who keeps a running camera in his hand, observing him making his household tasks. From a grotesque...
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Lutz Mommartz looks intently with nothing on the nothing -as long as possible- in the camera. In September 2011, on his balcony.
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Rügen / Germany: A far sea horizon. Swifts, clattering dishes, steps to the waitress and quiet conversations in the cafe. 60 minutes real time.
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Marker on blank Film Material
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Sunset, crickets, zoom on a mansion in the night, a door slam.
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This is the post scriptum of "Jeder Mensch ist ein Tisch, nur ich bin ein Stuhl" - (Every human is a table, only I am a chair)
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I threw the camera in the air and in this way I was able to express my aversion to conventional film show and skip my own limits. (LUTZ MOMMARTZ) "Selfshots" is the visual biography of an unconventional filmmaker. As a director, cinematographer and actor in one person, he points the camera on himself. He plays with her , throws it into the air, hurtling across the meadows, filmed his movements, his face and his hands and demonstrates in this way his adventurous relationship with a...
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A digitized mountain stream.
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The film is a simulation of the alternating blinking of the eye by moving the lens of the camera from the right to the left and back.
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A few frames of a wind turbine are mounted in many changing variations so that the movement recoils right before completion. (Lutz Mommartz)
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Hard-boiled eggs turn against black background. In "Trademark eggs" many eggs rotate continuously, as if by magic. The effect is achieved by a simple trick: The eggs were turned and shaken on a black plate. (LEXIKON DES NEUEN EUROPÄISCHEN FILMS) "Trademark eggs" shows a handful of these chicken-final-products, hard boiled like tracer bullets shooting over a black film, rotating on it. (KLAUS ULRICH REINKE, DÜSSELDORF, HEFTE, SEPT. 68)
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View from a balcony window with details from buildingparts in a rhythmic blending technology of a Canon Hi 8 camera. Tribute to Siegfried Kracauer. (Lutz Mommartz)
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With the Filmklasse Münster In 1979, the Academy of Fine Arts Münster / Germany celebrated its summer festival in the Lotharinger Straße Münster / Germany with an impressive performance of the Class of Ernst Hermanns. On this occasion I tried the newly acquired Eclair NPR 16mm and Anja Schimanski tired the new NAGRA, both devices with which the film class skipped the Super 8 tecnologie. (Lutz Mommartz) The Art Academy Münster / Germany is a University of Fine Arts. In terms of liberal arts...
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The sea is infinitely beautiful Description of a film installation with 5 projectors on 3 walls. The breath of the sheep 9,35’ N8 mm Tour trough Scotland with Gotthard Graubner and Günter Uecker.
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Community performance with guests. Drama on the stage of the Aalto Theatre in Essen / Germany with simultaneous film projections on the canvas in the foreground of the stage at the festival SPEKTAKEL 92 of the Art- and Musicschools in NRW / Germany. Stage and film director: Jörn Hintzer The success of this performance has helped that the Department of Arts educators Münster of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf became an independent Art Academy. (Lutz Mommartz) The Art Academy Münster / Germany...
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Test filming with Eddie Constantine in Wiesbaden for the movie "Tango through Germany". For years I was looking for an actor who strives steadfastly afar. Someone who is not going for specific goal, but celebrates in a ritual way that it is about something that concerns everyone. Someone who makes a mark, provoking as a performance artist and takes the liberty to swim against the current. In April 1979, I found myself sitting next to Eddie Constantine. I told him about the project. He...
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2013 Mommartz von Andreas Köpnick
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1970 Edinburgh STRATEGYGETARTS Das Meer ist unendlich schön - Beschreibung einer Filminstallation mit 5 Projektoren auf 3 Wände Das Atem des Schafes 9,35’ N8 mm Rundreise durch Schottland mit Gotthard Graubner und Günter Uecker
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At the invitation of Xu Lujing we traveled in China in return for his guest studies in Germany and for a given loan. In the Beijing Film Academy, there is a reunion performance and a discussion about movies from Lutz Mommartz. Finally comes the abrupt end of the personal experiment - beyond the personal? A cellphone movie.
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2015 Mommartz-Trailer edited by Jemery Weinstein Del Bel - Old Magic
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The Youth initiation ceremony (Jugendweihe) is an East German phenomenon. It was adopted in 1954 in the former GDR as an obligatory pledge to socialism, displacing the Christian rite of confirmation. The number of young people choosing to undergo this initiation ceremony still runs to around 100,000. The Art Academy Münster / Germany is a University of Fine Arts. In terms of liberal arts here artists and art educators are studying in joint classes in the fields of painting, sculpture,...
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The communist party UZ celebrats on the meadows of the Rhine one of the biggest folk festivals that Düsseldorf / Germany ever experienced.
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With Wolfgang Domke. A man, "tied" to a table, gets drunk, eats beetroot and cream pie to be able to chuck and then during the some hours lasting process of sobering / disillusion he explains his vision of the future. Difficulties in articulation: In a gradual disillusionment from a drunken stupor, in dull bulls, chunking up (! In color, which was nice) and troglodytic muck the first communication sounds chuckle slowly from the speakers. The action takes place with progressive...
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Featuring Jurgen Kuhfuss Meiterinnen and Andreas Dahmen vom Mieterverein. An attempt by the film maker himself to make himself useful in the tenant solidarity movement against mass dismissals.
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Fidel Castro As on a journey to Cuba by a speech from Fidel Castro before his Parliament that was transmitted in television a film was made. (original epic sound) A severe hurricane, which devastated parts of the island the day before, just decays . I turn on the TV in my hotel room and without understanding Spanish I hold my video camera on the screen: Fidel Castro before his parliament, hanging on the lips. He is in the middle of one of his great speeches which will take 50 minutes. I ask for...
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Special two projector synchronization. A summary of the farmer's war in Germany. Filmgruppe Düsseldorf Doppelprojektion Naht an Naht nebeneinander - provisorisch zusammengeschnitten für eine Projektion. (LM)
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Digitized video painting: April weather in the back yard: roofs, balconies, windows. View from a balcony window with excerpts from buildings in rhythmic blending technology of Canon Hi 8, assembled in the camera. Tribute to Siegfried Kracauer (LM)
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With Ludwig Chateau. The film is the question to an old sculptor from Düsseldorf whether he was willing to participate in an Old Age Porn. On a search for a cuple for a love story with sex beyond the 70 Herbert Götzinger sent me to his colleagues sculptor Ludwig Chateau. During my surprise visit with the running camera, asking if he would be willing to do his part, he attacked me: "Is not that enough what they're doing at this moment?" (LUTZ MOMMARTZ)
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With Tony Morgan and his fools It was the time when the hair was becoming shorter and the skirts became longer again.(LUTZ MOMMARTZ)
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View from hotel window on the nocturnal Rambla in Barcelona. An attractive middle-aged woman floats like a butterfly begging passers that pase by for something. The camera follows her - in real-time- with minimal interruption. At first I could not distinguish if this is a performance or life itself. (LUTZ MOMMARTZ)
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With Fred Keil Lutz and Fred mess around in a profound way about what they are doing: Movies and Photos.
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With Margret Gloddek and Ingrid Lutz With three in Greece. Multiple relationship as a way of life. The entire trilogy: 1976 Flügelschlagen (Wing flapping) Trilogie 1, 16 min 1978 Mehr als Zwei (More than two) Trilogie 2, 16:45 min 1979 Schattenkur (Cure of shadows) Trilogie 3, 15 min
Topics: Lutz Mommartz, German experimental Cinema, Multiple relationships
With Jürgen Kuhfuß "Monuments" is an attack on the meaning of monuments, here in Düsseldorf / Germany. And then suddenly a film with a recognizable concept was shown, an attack on the Monument Forest in Düsseldorf from imperialist and fascist days, along with the call to replace the monuments with memorials for the victims from these bloody times. That was a debatable attempt to make visible and attack the "Unresolved past". (PETER STEINHART, RP, 6.4.72)
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With Margret Gloddek and Ingrid Lutz Holiday with three at Lanzarote. Multiple relationship as a way of life. The entire trilogy: 1976 Flügelschlagen (Wing flapping) Trilogie 1, 16 min 1978 Mehr als Zwei (More than two) Trilogie 2, 16:45 min 1979 Schattenkur (Cure of shadows) Trilogie 3, 15 min
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New Year party with Sigmar Polke at the department of the Kohlhöfers in Düsseldorf / Germany.
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With Joseph Beuys. Joseph Beuys accepts the challenge to expose himself to the anonymous audience. "Social Sculpture" was filmed in 1969 subsequently after the filming of "400 m IFF". IFF is the name of the available film material, that was already expired, from which approximately 400 m were used for "400 m IFF" and the rest for "Social Sculpture". In "400 m IFF" three men appear in front of the filming camera in the apartment of the author....
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With Margret Gloddek and Ingrid Lutz Der author and his partners. Multiple relationship as a way of life. The entire trilogy: 1976 Flügelschlagen (Wing flapping) Trilogie 1, 16 min 1978 Mehr als Zwei (More than two) Trilogie 2, 16:45 min 1979 Schattenkur (Cure of shadows) Trilogie 3, 15 min
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